DeLay was the first thing that came to my mind as well.
Years down the road...they will say...”Never mind”. But no one will know or care.
You are so correct about Austin. There was a time I loved to visit the place. Beautiful, slow pace, great music. Today I would like to relocate the whole area to Cali. Austin would fit right in. (No offense to any Cali Freepers.)
Austin: San Francisco of the south!
We don't want them. Most of California is Conservative, just the coast counties with tons of immigrants from the East and south of the border are Liberal. Imagine if I were to visit only Austin, and no where else in Texas, and come to the conclusion that the entire state of Texas was Liberal based on that.